[cwkoss]

Education is the path out of this: advertised products are ALWAYS worse value. You are overpaying to fund convincing the next sucker.

The market is pretty efficient, and there are always alternatives. If you aren't lazy, you can save a huge amount of money by not buying advertised products.

On the rare occasions I see an ad for something cool that I want, I search for it on aliexpress and 90% of the time find it for 1/3 the price.

Whenever someone tells you that they bought something because of an ad, you should make them feel a little embarrassed about it. There should be mild social punishment for admitting an ad hijacked your brain and made you get out your wallet - it means you're a sucker, a rube, a feebleminded lazybones.

[cwkoss]

It's been fun watching the score of this post bounce up and down every time I refresh. People who earn their living off ads do NOT like being reminded that they are building a societal cancer.

[actionfromafar]

It's not only that, I think. Traditional full page ads, for instance, had a signal value:

"We may not be best. But we are credible and big enough that we make a shit-ton of money on our product and can afford this incredibly expensive ad."

Today, an ad possibly just means "Google matched two suckers with each other and will pocket the difference."

[moneywoes]

How do you get eye balls to educate?